Senior Backend Engineer

August 27

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Socket is the first chain abstraction protocol allowing developers to compose across 1000+ rollups and chains!

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Description

• We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team and lead the development of our backend systems. • This role requires an individual capable of building and optimizing critical, customizable software, ensuring seamless participation from external parties in our protocol. • Your responsibilities will include designing abstractions for scalability and robustness, efficiently orchestrating refactors and upgrades, and ensuring the reliability and performance of our backend infrastructure.

Requirements

• You're versatile, skilled in navigating various elements of the stack, and proficient in understanding comprehensive codebases. • You approach problem-solving by thinking from first principles, and have a keen sense for optimizing systems. • With a low-ego, startup mentality, you prioritize team goals, demonstrate openness in communication, and can effectively adapt in a dynamic environment. • You possess excellent software architecture instincts, with a good intuition for automation, testing, and software maintenance. • You have prior experience in blockchain engineering at a Layer-1, Layer-2, or Infrastructure project (Oracle, Bridge, Indexer, RPC Provider, Wallet, or other high-performance app). • You bring significant experience in blockchain engineering, with a proven record of initiating and building large-scale projects. • You are located within GMT +0 to GMT +7 time zones to sync effectively with the team.

Benefits

• Our product has real scale, reaching millions of people in crypto and beyond today. • As a team of builders, we prioritize impact over everything else. • Our team fosters a positive atmosphere, with all of us striving for the best for each other and our chain abstraction mission. • We're tackling an ambitious problem, working on a mission that is extremely challenging yet fun and holds high-impact potential for the entire crypto industry.